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It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.

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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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Goodness Pearl Production
In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.
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Character Life Natural Practice Right Virtue
Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference, and temperance and justice to passion and arrogance, then as the morals change so changes fortune.
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Arrogance Art Change Creation Easy Fortune Justice Original Place Preserve
Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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Himself Own Property
For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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Empire Greatness Harmony Small State
In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
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Brave Coward Credit Time Victory
Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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Growth Old Rise
It is impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the arts of prophecy and of healing, which are part of the cosmos, come of the good providence of the Gods.
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Cosmos Detail God Healing Impossible Principle
Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
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Friendship Honesty Money Soldier
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Angry Deep Emotion Feeling Himself
As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Beginning Blessing Decay Fortune Health
To hope for safety in flight, when you have turned away from the enemy the arms by which the body is defended, is indeed madness. In battle those who are most afraid are always in most danger; but courage is equivalent to rampart.
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Afraid Body Courage Defeat Enemy Equivalent Hope Madness Safety
By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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Dread Goodness Wicked
No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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Himself Man Right Serious Suffering Wrong
To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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Deep Man Poor Power Seek
But the case has proved that to be true which Appius says in his songs, that each man is the maker of his own fate.
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Creator Fate Man Song True

It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.

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